c8gb.medium pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)
1 vCPU · 2 GiB · Up to 16.66 Gigabit · AWS Graviton4 Processor Graviton
$0.0592/hour on-demand · $43/month (Linux, Shared)
c8gb.medium is a compute-optimized EC2 instance with 1 vCPU and 2 GiB, generation 8 of the c family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $0.0592 an hour, about $43 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.0373 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 459 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.0215 an hour, 64% below on-demand. The newer c8g.medium offers the same size for $0.0399 an hour, 33% less. US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for c8gb.medium.
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.0592 | — | $0.0736 | $0.1155 | $0.0610 |
| Spot | $0.0170 | — | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $0.0429 | — | $0.0573 | $0.0679 | $0.0443 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $0.0248 | — | $0.0392 | $0.0473 | $0.0259 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $0.0373 | — | $0.0517 | $0.0623 | $0.0387 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $0.0215 | — | $0.0359 | $0.0440 | $0.0226 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-east-1f $0.0277 · us-east-1b $0.0153 · us-east-1a $0.0179 · us-east-1d $0.0161
Newer generations of the same size
Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.
Already Graviton| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c8g.medium Graviton | $0.0399 | -33% | +49% | $14 |
| c9g.medium Graviton | $0.0435 | -27% | +36% | $12 |
| c8gd.medium Graviton | $0.0490 | -17% | +21% | $7 |
| c9gd.medium Graviton | $0.0534 | -10% | +11% | $4 |
| c8a.medium arch change | $0.0539 | -9% | +10% | $4 |
| c8gn.medium Graviton | $0.0593 | +0.1% | -0.1% | $-0 |
Cheapest regions for c8gb.medium
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-east-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.0592 | current | — |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $0.0592 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.0592 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $0.0636 | +7% | $-3 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.0669 | +13% | $-6 |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $0.0675 | +14% | $-6 |
Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.
Price history (us-east-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD Linux | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0170 |
| 2026-11-05 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0171 |
| 2026-11-04 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-11-03 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-11-02 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0177 |
| 2026-10-31 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-10-30 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0177 |
| 2026-10-29 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0178 |
| 2026-10-28 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0180 |
| 2026-10-27 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0183 |
| 2026-10-26 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0186 |
| 2026-10-25 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0188 |
| 2026-10-24 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0190 |
| 2026-10-23 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0196 |
| 2026-10-22 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0198 |
| 2026-10-21 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0200 |
| 2026-10-20 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0209 |
| 2026-10-19 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0215 |
| 2026-10-18 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0223 |
| 2026-10-17 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0226 |
| 2026-10-16 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0233 |
| 2026-10-15 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0241 |
| 2026-10-14 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0247 |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0253 |
| 2026-10-12 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0259 |
| 2026-10-11 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0263 |
| 2026-10-10 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0264 |
| 2026-10-09 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0272 |
| 2026-10-08 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0277 |
| 2026-10-07 | $0.0592 | — | — | — | $0.0282 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 1
- Cores / threads per core
- 1 / 1
- Memory
- 2 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 2.00 GiB
- Processor
- AWS Graviton4 Processor
- Architecture
- arm64
- Sustained clock
- 2.8 GHz
- Hypervisor
- nitro
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 16.66 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 2.083 / 16.666 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 2 × 4
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 1562 / 25000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 7,500 / 120000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- Yes / No
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- uefi
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-11-06). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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